“But there is another set of government statistics,” Sanders continued, “and that that real unemployment if you include those people who have given up looking for work and the millions of others who are working part-time 20, 25 hours a week when they want to work full-time, when you all of that together, real unemployment is 10.5 percent.”
It's bullshit even if Sanders says it.
The "REAL" rate has always been the U-3 rate and it still is now.
But even using Sanders' "unemployed," you have 7.915 million unemployed, 635,000 discouraged and 6.03 million working PT who want to work FT, which totals 14.58 million, nowhere near your MessiahRushie's 46 to 48 million..
That gives you a UE rate of 9.3%, not 10.5%